A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of NatureInterVarsity Press, 20 вер. 2009 р. - 257 стор. Meaningful or meaningless? Purposeful or pointless? When we look at nature, whether at our living earth or into deepest space, what do we find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey begins with Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid's geometry, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, the periodic table of the elements, the artistry of ordinary substances like carbon and water, the intricacy of biological organisms, and the irreducible drama of scientific exploration itself. Along the way, Wiker and Witt fashion a robust argument from evidence in nature, one that rests neither on religious presuppositions nor on a simplistic view of nature as the best of all possible worlds. In their exploration of the cosmos, Wiker and Witt find all the challenges and surprises, all of the mystery and elegance one expects from a work of genius. |
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... causing much intellectual mischief. In chapter five we will explore the complex and fascinating web of influences that led early chemists to uncover both the periodic table of elements and the atomic model. As we will show in several of ...
... causing much intellectual mischief. In chapter five we will explore the complex and fascinating web of influences that led early chemists to uncover both the periodic table of elements and the atomic model. As we will show in several of ...
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... caused by the ingrained habits of dogmatic materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual ... cause, like a monkey banging outffvvvvvvvfffffffffffffff while attempting to subdue a typewriter. Or a monsoon might ...
... caused by the ingrained habits of dogmatic materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual ... cause, like a monkey banging outffvvvvvvvfffffffffffffff while attempting to subdue a typewriter. Or a monsoon might ...
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... cause for the notion of wholesale pointlessness in the universe. Indeed, Weinberg is sufficiently myopic about this inconsistency that he can argue for wholesale pointlessness in his penultimate paragraph and, apparently without even ...
... cause for the notion of wholesale pointlessness in the universe. Indeed, Weinberg is sufficiently myopic about this inconsistency that he can argue for wholesale pointlessness in his penultimate paragraph and, apparently without even ...
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... cause of everything and that the order around us is unintended, pointless. But for those who will listen, the order ... causes. It must kill the soul and, in the process, reduce all the evident genius of humanity to dust. To this end ...
... cause of everything and that the order around us is unintended, pointless. But for those who will listen, the order ... causes. It must kill the soul and, in the process, reduce all the evident genius of humanity to dust. To this end ...
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... causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet, shows that all such ... cause cannot be reduced to blind mechanism. In light of this, we might begin to wonder whether not just Shakespeare ...
... causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet, shows that all such ... cause cannot be reduced to blind mechanism. In light of this, we might begin to wonder whether not just Shakespeare ...
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3 Shakespeare and the Element of Genius | 58 |
4 The Geometry of Genius | 83 |
5 The Periodic Table | 111 |
6 A Cosmic Home Designed for Discovery | 148 |
7 The Genius of the Elements | 170 |
8 The Reemergence of the Living Cell | 194 |
9 The Restoration of the Living Organism | 220 |
10 The End of the Matter | 241 |
Index | 253 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 258 |
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